Word: freer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sign-out hours are an example of Mount Holyoke's protectiveness. Girls must be in their dorm by 11 p.m. on week nights, midnight on Friday, and 1 a.m. on Saturday. Catherine P. Robinson, Dean of Residence, justified the stringency of the rules: The Holyoke girl is really freer than she thinks. The college is responsible for minors, and we cannot run a community of 1600 girls without law and order. It is up to the institution to set standards of behavior...
...Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Britain and the U.S. could reduce tariffs up to 50% on all the major items traded between them. Since under the GATT convention, these cuts would also be extended to other nations, the effect would be to open Britain to a freer flow of trade and force the inefficient manufacturers who are endangering Britain's economic health to modernize or perish...
...pursuit of freer trade, President Kennedy last week vetoed a proposal to double tariffs on imported bicycles. Such a reversion to protectionism, he explained, "would hamper our efforts to improve the position of American industry in foreign markets...
...collector responsible for it is a Manhattanite named John M. Crawford Jr., who has been using his ample inheritance from a West Virginia manufacturer of oil-drilling equipment to build the finest collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy in private Western hands since that of the famed Charles Freer...
...paintings had a similar rhythm, almost musical in their surges of line and empty spaces of pure silence. They required the mastery of the same calligraphic stroke, from the tight lines of the academic seal characters to the freer lines of "grass script." Color, when used, was often so fragile that it looked as if it could be blown away...